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}} The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman’s Memorial or the Emancipation Group, and sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial" before the more prominent so-named memorial was built, is a monument in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.〔American University: (Great Emancipator, Supplicant Slave: The Freedman's Memorial to Abraham Lincoln ). Retrieved August 25, 2012.〕〔National Park Service: (Lincoln Park ). Retrieved August 25, 2012.〕 Designed and sculpted by Thomas Ball and erected in 1876, the monument depicts Abraham Lincoln in his role of the "Great Emancipator" freeing a male African American slave modeled on Archer Alexander. The ex-slave is depicted on one knee, with one fist clenched, shirtless and shackled at the president's feet.〔 The monument has long been the subject of controversy. According to information from American University:〔 Despite being paid for by African Americans, historian Kirk Savage in 1997 condemned it as "a monument entrenched in and perpetuating racist ideology" because of the supplicant and inferior position of the Black figure.〔Kirk, Savage, ''Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves'', 119〕 The statue is a contributing monument to the Civil War Monuments in Washington, DC, of the National Register of Historic Places. ==Funding== The funding drive for the monument began, according to much-publicized newspaper accounts from the era, with $5 given by former slave Charlotte Scott of Virginia to her former master for the purpose of creating a memorial honoring Lincoln.〔Kirk Savage, ''Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America'' (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997) pg. 90〕 The Western Sanitary Commission, a St. Louis-based volunteer war-relief agency, joined the effort and raised some $20,000 before announcing a new $50,000 goal.〔Kirk Savage, ''Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America'' (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997) pg. 92〕 According to the National Park Service, the monument was paid for ''solely'' by free slaves: The turbulent politics of the reconstruction era affected the fundraising campaign on many levels. The Colored People’s Educational Monument Association headed by Henry Highland Garnet wanted the monument to serve a didactic purpose as a school where freedmen could elevate themselves through learning. Fredrick Douglass disagreed and thought the goal of education was incommensurate with that of remembering Lincoln.〔Kirk Savage, ''Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), 93〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emancipation Memorial」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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